Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities

Sara Heitlinger, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London,Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology,Rachel Clarke, Course Leader, BA Design for Climate Justice, Design School, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Sara Heitlinger is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, in the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. She leads the More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities (MoSaIC) project. Her research at the intersections of urban sustainability, computation, and participatory design draws on methods from the arts and humanities to find ways for co-designing more just and inclusive smart cities.

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. He is a founding member of the QUT More-than-Human Futures research group. Marcus is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and currently serves on Australia's national College of Experts.


Rachel Clarke is a design researcher and practitioner combining visual communication with qualitative research, performance and storytelling focussed on the climate emergency, sustainability and social inequality. She has exhibited work internationally and co-authored research papers across design research, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social sciences. She is course leader of the BA (Hons) Design for Climate Justice, an innovative new course that develops student skills in diverse design practices for climate action and changemaking at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is a member of DEFRA's Futures Advisory Group informing UK agricultural and environmental policy and practice.